Baking

• Cheese

French onion loaf

Helen Goh transforms the classic French soup into a soft and tasty loaf.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Better baking

This retro celebration cake will never go out of fashion. Here’s the secret to whipping up a great one

Bring out a black forest cake – a high-rise stack of airy chocolate sponges, sweet-sour cherries and clouds of cream – then stand back and soak up the accolades.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Emelia Jackson

• Recipe collection
• Cake

Five zingy lemon cakes to bake this weekend

Pro tip: Use your fingertips to rub the zest into the sugar to release the oils and enhance the citrus flavour.

• Lemon

Double-lemon loaf cake with sugar crust

Danielle Alvarez’s lemon cake of dreams also happens to be dairy-free.

• 1-2 hrs
• Danielle Alvarez

• Pastry

Tartiflette galette (cheese and potato tart)

Two classic French recipes combine to create this open-faced, cheese-and-potato pie.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Cream & milk

Adam Liaw’s citrus syrup yoghurt loaf

This simple stir-and-bake loaf cake makes excellent use of abundant winter citrus.

• 1-2 hrs
• Adam Liaw

• Coconut

Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

This tropical traybake will brighten the dreariest winter’s day.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Recipe collection
• Biscuit

Five old-fashioned biscuit recipes to bake this weekend

Take a (melting) moment for yourself this weekend with a freshly baked bikkie and a cup of tea.

• Nuts

Almond shortbread jam (or marmalade) drops

You can use any kind of jam, but I recommend a particular kumquat marmalade for these thumbprint biscuits.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh

• Winter warmer

Helen Goh’s lemon self-saucing pudding with extra zing

This pudding works equally well as a soothing, warm dessert on a cold night or as a satisfying end to a Sunday-lunch roast.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh